Let me put it this way: It certainly is a *choice* to keep as Home Secretary a woman who literally told an immigrant member of the public to “f*ck right off” through a microphone from a stage. To choose keeping that the language of the office that decides who is allowed to stay
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Tanja Bueltmann
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Unless this “honesty” involves the recognition that immigrants are *not* the root cause of the UK’s problems *but* actually a part of the solution to them, this will be completely pointless. I cannot stress this enough. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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This mentions Brexit as the starting point. Until the UK reckons with the role Brexit had in enabling the far right, things like this will happen more and get much worse. I don’t know how many more times one can say this but we are *a lot* further down a very dark road than most people realise.
David LeaskI am not sure that we appreciate how much hostility there is from the far right to the learning and speaking of languages. 1/2 www.thetimes.com/article/9a33...